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Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments in spending such financial means. Although fiscal decentralisation has recently been quite pronounced in Eastern European transition countries, the dominance of a purpose- and...
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Starting in the fall of 1997, the World Bank Institute organized a learning program on Intergovernmental Roles in the Delivery of Education Services in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Bulgaria and Albania joined in 1998. The program aimed to help build analytical capacity to...
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poverty. Indeed, the literature on fiscal decentralization presents evidence that local services, especially health and …
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The article attempts to provide an overview of the fiscal decentralization process in emerging market economies in … decentralization in the region. Conceptually, the measurement of fiscal decentralization focuses on fiscal autonomy and the fiscal … importance of subnational governments. The empirical analysis reveals that the highest level of fiscal decentralization …
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The majority of the literature on fiscal decentralization has tended to stress that the greater capacity of … level of fiscal decentralization and economic growth rates across 16 Central and Eastern European countries over the 1990 … out of three fiscal decentralization indicators included in the analysis and economic growth.However, the use of different …
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government control and decentralized governance. Political decentralization has advanced in most countries. Subnational …
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This paper examines the importance of fiscal autonomy in the analysis of decentralization. Using new data published by … the OECD (2001 and 2002), it reproduces several indicators and proposes new measures of decentralization that take into … decentralization and economic growth, and Oates (1985), on decentralization and public sector size. Some evidence suggests that fiscal …
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government control and decentralized governance. Political decentralization has advanced in most countries. Subnational …
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The majority of the literature on fiscal decentralization has tended to stress that the greater capacity of … level of fiscal decentralization and economic growth rates across 16 Central and Eastern European countries over the 1990 … out of three fiscal decentralization indicators included in the analysis and economic growth. However, the use of …
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